Vicki Bonham, LMHC
Calm guidance for practical life change
Details
| Name | Vicki Bonham |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LMHC |
| Based in | Florida |
| Licensed in | Florida |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 5 |
About Vicki
Vicki Bonham is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with five years of clinical experience. She brings a long background in education, counseling, and life coaching to her work. Vicki focuses on practical support for common problems like stress, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem.
She aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and clear. Vicki adapts conversations and plans to fit each person's situation. She speaks plainly, listens closely, and works at the client’s pace.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on Narrative therapy ideas and other evidence-based methods to help people reframe problems and find workable next steps. Clients often seek help for relationship concerns, LGBT-related issues, parenting strain, grief, trauma, and intimacy challenges. Vicki also addresses work and career stress, caregiver strain, and struggles with life transitions.
She includes focus on attachment and abandonment themes when those come up. Her methods can include cognitive-behavioral tools for changing unhelpful thinking, acceptance strategies to live with difficult feelings, and client-centered listening to support personal goals. Sessions are practical, with attention to skills you can use between meetings.
Vicki aims to support people who want encouragement and concrete guidance. She frames therapy as a collaborative effort toward clearer choices and better daily functioning. The work is paced to each person’s needs and comfort level.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, LGBT, Relationship issues among the things Vicki works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Listed by Vicki among the ways she works.
- Attachment-Based Therapy: Listed by Vicki among the ways she works.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Vicki among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Vicki among the ways she works.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Listed by Vicki among the ways she works.
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT): Listed by Vicki among the ways she works.
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Listed by Vicki among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Vicki among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Vicki among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Vicki among the ways she works.
- Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Vicki among the ways she works.
- Internal Family Systems: Listed by Vicki among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Vicki directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Vicki directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
How narrative and acceptance work in online sessions
Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from their problems by telling and reshaping personal stories. It can be useful for issues like low self-esteem, identity questions, relationship patterns, and major life changes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without fighting them and choosing actions that match your values. It often helps with anxiety, stress, grief, and challenges that keep people stuck in avoidance. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections influence relationship habits. It can be helpful when intimacy, communication, or caregiver stress are central concerns. Finding the best approach is a shared process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. If something doesn’t feel right, the plan can be adjusted until it works better for you. Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls give visual connection for deeper conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging let you share thoughts between meetings or use shorter, on-the-go check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving duties, or busy schedules.Common questions about this listing
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma, self-esteem, LGBT concerns, parenting stress, career strain, and related life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She uses a conversational, client-centered style and borrows techniques from Narrative work, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and cognitive-behavioral methods to find practical next steps.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has five years of professional clinical experience and decades of work in education, counseling, and life coaching settings.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, FL LMHC, and practices from Florida.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available online?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for remote work.
How are sessions paid for?
Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time; exact cost varies by location and therapist availability.
How do I begin working with her?
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